Extraction of the esophageal foreign bodies by cervicotomy: our experience about 9 cases
N'Gattia, K.V.; Kacouchia, N.B.; Kouassi, Y.M.; Vroh Bi, T.S.; Mobio, N.M.; Kouassi-Ndjeundo, J.; Buraïma, F.; Tanon-Anoh, M.J.; Kouassi, B.; Portmann, D.
Revue de Laryngologie - Otologie - Rhinologie 132(2): 123-128
2011
ISSN/ISBN: 0035-1334 PMID: 22416495 Document Number: 655422
To present our experience of the extraction of the esophageal foreign bodies by cervicotomy route. Descriptive retrospective study from 2006 to 2010 realized in the ENT Departments of Yopougon and Treichville's Teaching Hospital. 9 (3.3%) of 270 patients underwent surgery to remove esophageal foreign bodies. The average age of the patients was of 14.6 years (extremes: 8 months and 49 years). The foreign bodies were fish bone, hook of clothes peg, medallion, denture and weld. Cervicotomy was performed at once in 4 cases and after failure of esophagoscopy in 5 cases. There were 2 complications (pharyngostoma and suppuration of the operating site). The cervicotomy must be quickly performed in case of perforation with or without neck abscess, sharp or voluminous bodies.